Depositor



Nov. 10, 1925. 1,561,302

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UNITED STATES 1,561,302 PATENT OFFICE.

ALONZO LINTON BAUSMAN, SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR T0 NA- TIONAL EQUIPMENT COMPANY, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORA- TION OF MASSACHUSETTS.

DEPOSITOR.

Application filed October 19, 1923.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALoNzo LINTON BAUS- MAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Springfield, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Depositors, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in depositors and particularly to depositors which are adapted to deposit a plurality of 'kinds of different confectionery materials.

Depositors for simultaneously discharging two or more kinds of confectionery have been provided heretofore, as I am aware, but such depositors generally discharge the two or more substances from one nozzle or from multiple nozzles which are concentrically located. These depositors, while suitable for forming ornamental deposits on biscuits and the like are not suitable where an intermingling of the various kinds of confection is not desired. The present invention is concerned with improvements in depositors whereby, deposits of two or more kinds of confection may be simultaneously made in one mold, in such a manner that the various kinds of confection are not substantially intermingled.

The invention has for an object the provision of means whereby an ordinary depositor can readily be converted into one adapted for the special use described and contemplates the provision of a special pump bar which may be substituted for the pump bar of the ordinary depositor together with a partitioning device which can be applied 'to the supply receptacle of the ordinary depositor to divide it into a plurality of compartments.

According to this feature, the manufacturer can standardize his depositor line and, by a simple substitution of a special pump bar and a partitioning device, can convert the standard depositor into one adapted for the special use described.

According to another feature of the invention, the pump cylinders are arrangedall in one transverse row and in alignment and each of the plurality of supply receptacles is connected to a nozzle in this transverse row so that different materials may be discharged through diiferent nozzles in, such row.

Frequently, only two kinds of material Serial No. 669,543.

are desired and in such case one receptacle 1s connected to alternate nozzles of the transverse rows and the other receptacleis connected to the remaining nozzles ofthe row.

According to another feature of the invention a removable partitioning device, consisting essentially of a flexible plate of thin metal, is provided which can be slipped 111 place in the supply receptacle and held in place by clamping devices applied at one end only, such devices acting to hold the plate in bowed form in contiguous relation with abutments provided for the sides and other end of the plate.

Other objects and advantages will appear in the following description and in the illustrative embodiment of the invention in the accompanying drawings, in which Fig. 1 is a side elevational view of a de-' positor embodying the invention;

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary cross sectional view thereof taken on the line 22 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is an enlarged fragmentary sectional elevational View showing the improved pump bar and the receptacle partitioning device;

Fig. 4 is a fragmentary sectional elevational view taken similarly to Fig. 3 but in a different plane;

Fig. 5 is a rear elevational View ofthe pump bar;

Fig. 6 is a fragmentary sectional plan view taken on the line 6-6 of Fig. 3;

Fig. 7 is a fragmentary plan view of the cut off bar; and

Fig. 8 is a fragmentary sectional View taken similarly to Fig. 3 and showing a different positioning of parts.

Referring to these drawings; the depositor, for the most part, is of the usual well known construction. It includes spaced side frames A which support a supply receptacle 6 and mechanism for moving trays, such as t, usually in a step by step manner, heneath the receptacle 6. The tray moving mechanism includes two laterally spaced conveyer chains 0 supported from shafts d and e and driven from the former by ratchet and pawl mechanism, indicated conventionally at f. The. trays ride on runways 7, which also receive and support chains 0 in their working stretch of travel, and are held in line by side guides h. The chains 0 carry lugs 71 which engage and move the trays The depositor as thus far described, is generally similar to that disclosed in my U. S. Letters Patent No. 1,169,602, granted J anuary 25, 1916, to which reference may be made for a more complete disclosure.

The. depositor also includes a pump bar 10 which is suitably fixed, as indicated. to the front face of receptacle 6 and is provided with a plurality of pump cylinders 11, all of which are aligned in one transverse row. Slidably mounted in each cylinder 11 is a piston 12 which emerges from the up per end of its cylinder through a stufling box 13 and is provided with a T-head 14.. The heads ll of all the pistons are received in a corresponding groove in a cross bar 15 which is slidably mounted near its ends in guide members 16 fixed to the front face of the receptacle 6. The bar 15 is provided at its ends with trunnions 17, which are c0nnected by links 18 to suitable driving mecha nism, such asthatillustrated and described in the patent above identified,

Fixed to the lower face of the pump bar 10 is a bottom closure member 20 which is recessed longitudinally in its upper face to slidably receive a cut off bar 21, shown in detail in Fig. 7 In the members 20, and depending downwardly therefrom, are mounted a plurality of discharge nozzles 22, one located beneath each cylinder 11. In the pump bar. 10 and located behind the cylinders 11 are a transverse row of supply ports 23, one for each cylinder, which ports are vertically disposed in parallel relation with their cylinders. The cut of bar 21 is provided with a plurality of elongated holes ther t r ugl1, ne r a y nd an intermediate these holes, are a plurality of holes 25, one for each cylinder. The holes 24 are adapted to connect the ports to their respective cylinders in a manner clearly obvious from Fig, 3 and the bar 21' is movable laterally to carry the holes 2 L out of communication with ports 23 and cylinders 11 and into the position shown in Fig.

cylinders 11. v 1 above described is that which obtains during 6. In such position, which is also illus trated in Fig. 8, the holes 25 in bar 21 serve to connect the nozzles 23 to their respective The position of bar 21 first the suction stroke of pistons 12 and the seci l Positions t a whi h ta duri the discharge stroke of the pistons. The construction and mounting of the cut oil bar is similar to that ordinarily used and it is actuated in the usual manner, as by the mechanism disclosed in the prior patent bo e den I The member 20 is provided with a,dove tail 26 adjacent its lower rear edge which is receive ina co esp n i g groo e in the i'QI fai t .rec rtae Th me r provided with the usual discharge passage 30 in the front face thereof near its lower end. For partitioning the receptacle 6 and thereby forming compartments 31 and 32 for different confectionery materials, l provide a flexible plate 33 which'inay advantageously b3 made Of thin h t. metal. T

this plate 33 an angle iron 3.4his riveted along its upper edge, which serves to stif fen the plate against transversebending and for another purpose'laterto appear. Se:

cured within and to each sidewall of the re cepta-cle are angle iron abutments 35, each.

of which extends, from a substantially cen' tral location near the upper end of the reep a o n ard y in a arc of a ircl and erm na d ha e P ssag 30. 1 3 stantially centrally between the upper and lower walls thereof. Above the lower. end

of angle irons 35 and spaced therefrom,by a

distance commensurate with the thickness of plate 33, are short angle rons 36, wh ch ar l a ed st n rey ind s h lis iiassage 30 and are secured one to each sidewall thereof. The angle irons 36 are. pref ra y e l d, s. t. 7, o the Purpos of guiding the lower end of plate 33 into the.

groove between the angle irons 35 and 36, during the operatlon of inserting the plate in the receptacle. The angle irons 36 serve as guides to ,direct the lower edge of plate 33,

during the same operation, into a transverse groove 3 8 which is formed in the rear face of pump bar 10. This groove is preferably formed with diverging walls, asshown, to

assist in guiding the plate 33 to a proper seat in the bottom of the groove, such bottom' forming an abutment against which the lower edge of plate 33 is tightly pressed, as will appear. To further assist in guiding plate 33 into groove 38 a single short angle iron 39 is riveted to the under side of plate 33 near its lower end and this angle iron slides on the bottom wall of passage 30' and prevents the plate 33from bending inmm d t s nd to uch degr a w prevent its insert on into groove 38. Se-

cured to the top of the receptacle 6 and projecting inwardly in overlying relation with the angle iron 34 are lugs 40, one on ac s o th r pta le, an th ad d into each lug is a thumb screw 41 which can be turned down to apply pressure on the upper edge of plate 33 and thereby force it usual form, having an.

tightly against the side abutments 35, thereby forming a tight partition wall between the compartments 31 and 32. The lower end of plate 33 is inserted between guldes 36 and angle irons 35 and then pushed downwardly, being guided as described into groove38. The plate is then bowed inwardly until the angle iron 3 f can be caught under the ends of screws 41, which are then turned down to apply the final holding pressure.

Referring now to the pump bar 10, there are provided in its rear face, upper and lower supply slots 42 and 43 which are longitudinally disposed in parallel relation and which communicate with passage 30 above and below plate 33, respectively. The slot 42 is connected to every other supply port 23 by vertical passages 44 and the slot 43 is connected to the other supply ports by passages 45. Thus, adjacent pump cylinders are supplied from different compartments and adjacent nozzles 22 may emit different confectionery materials.

In use, the trays t 2) are filled with starch and rows of molds m are formed therein which are considerably longer than the ordinary mold, such as is used for the centers of chocolate creams. The molds m are much the same in size and shape as the so-called lady fingers and are so located that as a row of molds comes to rest beneath the row of nozzles 22 each mold will underlie two adjacent nozzles, whereby two kinds of confection will be deposited simultaneously in different locations in the same mold. The confections are thus deposited side by side in the same mold and do not inter mingle to any substantial extent although, of course, the line of division between the two kinds of confection may be somewhat irregular.

The invention has been disclosed herein, in an embodiment at present preferred, for illustrativepurposes, but the scope of the invention is defined by the appended claims rather than by the foregoing description.

What I claim is:

1. The combination in a depositor with the receptacle for the material to be deposited, of a flexible partition wall therefor, an abutment provided in connection with the receptacle to receive the lower end of said wall, abutments on the sides of said receptacle against which the side edges of said wall are adapted to engage, and means for applying pressure to the upper edge of said wall to cause it to engage said abutments.

2. The combination in a depositor with the receptacle for the material to be deposited, of a flexible partition wall therefor, an abutment provided in connection with the receptacle to receive the lower end of said wall, curved abutments on the sides of said receptacle against which the side edges of said wall are adapted to engage, and means for applying pressure to the upper edge of said wall and causing it to bow inwardly against said curved abutments.

The combination in a depositor with the receptacle for material to be deposited, said receptacle provided with an open' upper end and a dischar e passage in its front wall, an angle iron a utment on each side wall extending in an arc of a circle from a position adjacent said upper end to a position adjacent said passage and intermediate the upper and lower walls thereof, a thin metal partition plate extending transversely across the receptacle, an abutment adjacent said passage to receive the lower end of said plate, and means on the receptacle for applying pressure to the upper edge of said plate and bending it against said angle iron abutments.

4. The combination in a depositor with the receptacle for material to be deposited, said receptacle provided with an open upper end and a discharge passage in its front wall, an angle iron abutment on each side wall extending in an arc of a circle from a position adjacent said upper end to a positionadjacent said passage and intermediate the upper and lower walls thereof, a thin metal partition plate extending transversely across the receptacle, an abutment adjacent said passage to receive the lower end of said plate, and an abutment near said upper end of the receptacle for the upper end of the plate, said plate adapted to be engaged with its lower abutment, flexed to engage said curved abutments and held in flexed position by the upper abutment.

In testimony whereof I have affixed my signature.

ALONZO LINTON BAUSMAN. 

